Andrey Petrov
@shazow.net
A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS. 🇨🇦
Also on:
https://shazow.net
https://github.com/shazow
https://farcaster.id/shazow.eth
Also on:
https://shazow.net
https://github.com/shazow
https://farcaster.id/shazow.eth
PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new.
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new.
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat.
Eg from 2018:
lots of great names, but one more for the pile: aerator
like the little mesh people have in their faucets
like the little mesh people have in their faucets
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
lots of great names, but one more for the pile: aerator
like the little mesh people have in their faucets
like the little mesh people have in their faucets
app.bsky.* lexicon namespace is literally for Bluesky microblogging apps.
I don't want to pollute your microblogging timeline with a thousand one liner chat messages.
I don't want to pollute your microblogging timeline with a thousand one liner chat messages.
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
app.bsky.* lexicon namespace is literally for Bluesky microblogging apps.
I don't want to pollute your microblogging timeline with a thousand one liner chat messages.
I don't want to pollute your microblogging timeline with a thousand one liner chat messages.
wifitui (fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI for linux) now has community maintained packages on Arch AUR and Slackware! Anyone wanna maintain Debian/Nixpkgs? 👉👈
github.com/shazow/wifit...
github.com/shazow/wifit...
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
wifitui (fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI for linux) now has community maintained packages on Arch AUR and Slackware! Anyone wanna maintain Debian/Nixpkgs? 👉👈
github.com/shazow/wifit...
github.com/shazow/wifit...
Would it be possible to get more details about what is it about Switzerland and a Swiss Association that actually makes it a credibly neutral and stable global home? Curious which laws or failure modes this is being optimized for and what the alternate considerations may have been.
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Would it be possible to get more details about what is it about Switzerland and a Swiss Association that actually makes it a credibly neutral and stable global home? Curious which laws or failure modes this is being optimized for and what the alternate considerations may have been.
Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala)
github.com/shazow/wifitui
github.com/shazow/wifitui
September 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala)
github.com/shazow/wifitui
github.com/shazow/wifitui
keep/delete?
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
September 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
keep/delete?
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.
Agree, the license is orthogonal, and restrictive licenses tend to do more harm than good (by creating additional liabilities that wouldn't exist otherwise).
"Help maintain it" has a lot of baggage though, it can manifest in many shapes that are all valid, but most of us imagine it in one way.
"Help maintain it" has a lot of baggage though, it can manifest in many shapes that are all valid, but most of us imagine it in one way.
July 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Agree, the license is orthogonal, and restrictive licenses tend to do more harm than good (by creating additional liabilities that wouldn't exist otherwise).
"Help maintain it" has a lot of baggage though, it can manifest in many shapes that are all valid, but most of us imagine it in one way.
"Help maintain it" has a lot of baggage though, it can manifest in many shapes that are all valid, but most of us imagine it in one way.
I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses.
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
July 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses.
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!
shazow.net/posts/permis...
urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
May 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.
I got to share my urllib3 origin story on opensource dot org: opensource.org/maintainers/...
![Excerpt from the linked post:
My first big open source project was urllib3. Today it’s used by almost every Python user and receives almost a billion downloads each month, but it started in 2007 out of necessity.
I was working at TinEye (formerly known as Idée Inc.) as my first “real” job out of university, and we needed to upload billions of images to Amazon S3. I wrote a script to get processing and estimated how long it would take to finish… two months! Turns out in 2007, HTTP libraries weren’t reusing sockets or connection pooling, weren’t thread-safe, didn’t fully support multipart encoding, didn’t know about resuming or retries or redirecting, and much more that we take for granted today.
It took me about a week to write the first version of what ultimately became urllib3, along with workerpool for managing concurrent jobs in Python, and roughly one more week to do the entire S3 upload using these new tools. A month and a half ahead of schedule, and we became one of Amazon’s biggest S3 customers at the time.
I was pleased with my work. I was just months into my role at TinEye and I already had a material impact. Reflecting on this time almost two decades later, I realized that doing a good job at work was not what created the real impact. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heyalnsb3cmtrqk3lks2yxfz/bafkreihngf5khjthhg2jutdnmmaffprcwvw3i7bdc3sojwfb7t3eyxj2au@jpeg)
May 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I got to share my urllib3 origin story on opensource dot org: opensource.org/maintainers/...
urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
April 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
PER
MONTH
(a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain)
I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.
Thank you @americanexpress.bsky.social for sponsoring urllib3 and helping improve critical Python internet infrastructure.
I know it takes a lot of activation energy for a large company to sponsor an amount like this, so I extra appreciate whoever did the leg work on this. 🙏
I know it takes a lot of activation energy for a large company to sponsor an amount like this, so I extra appreciate whoever did the leg work on this. 🙏
April 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Thank you @americanexpress.bsky.social for sponsoring urllib3 and helping improve critical Python internet infrastructure.
I know it takes a lot of activation energy for a large company to sponsor an amount like this, so I extra appreciate whoever did the leg work on this. 🙏
I know it takes a lot of activation energy for a large company to sponsor an amount like this, so I extra appreciate whoever did the leg work on this. 🙏
when i was a teen, i used to draw *a lot* of stickfigures.
i remember why: someone commented how they were jelly of my drawing talents while they could only draw stickfigures, and i insisted that you can totally make cool art with just stickfigures... and thus began my stickfigure era:
i remember why: someone commented how they were jelly of my drawing talents while they could only draw stickfigures, and i insisted that you can totally make cool art with just stickfigures... and thus began my stickfigure era:
March 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
when i was a teen, i used to draw *a lot* of stickfigures.
i remember why: someone commented how they were jelly of my drawing talents while they could only draw stickfigures, and i insisted that you can totally make cool art with just stickfigures... and thus began my stickfigure era:
i remember why: someone commented how they were jelly of my drawing talents while they could only draw stickfigures, and i insisted that you can totally make cool art with just stickfigures... and thus began my stickfigure era:
Recently rewatched the old Gladiator (from 2000!) and it still slaps.
I can't stop thinking about this scene:
I can't stop thinking about this scene:
February 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Recently rewatched the old Gladiator (from 2000!) and it still slaps.
I can't stop thinking about this scene:
I can't stop thinking about this scene:
Update: After some drama, got my USB DVDRW I bought with Dell points. Didn't think anything I ordered at the end of the year 2024 would come with a Compact Disc (even if the thing is a DVD drive), but here we are.
Copyrighted 1999-2022.
Copyrighted 1999-2022.
December 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Update: After some drama, got my USB DVDRW I bought with Dell points. Didn't think anything I ordered at the end of the year 2024 would come with a Compact Disc (even if the thing is a DVD drive), but here we are.
Copyrighted 1999-2022.
Copyrighted 1999-2022.
December 9, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Spending a few days in Phoenix AZ.
November 30, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Spending a few days in Phoenix AZ.
Protip: Use the little Plus button to reply with multiple skeets, it will keep them threaded properly. (Right now it's hard to read your replies in sequence.)
November 29, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Protip: Use the little Plus button to reply with multiple skeets, it will keep them threaded properly. (Right now it's hard to read your replies in sequence.)
"RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards" is a great read: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9518/
Just stumbled on it via @bnewbold.net latest: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net...
Tons of excellent quotes in there, but I'm tickled by this echo of my earlier important reminder.
Just stumbled on it via @bnewbold.net latest: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net...
Tons of excellent quotes in there, but I'm tickled by this echo of my earlier important reminder.
November 27, 2024 at 7:34 PM
"RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards" is a great read: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9518/
Just stumbled on it via @bnewbold.net latest: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net...
Tons of excellent quotes in there, but I'm tickled by this echo of my earlier important reminder.
Just stumbled on it via @bnewbold.net latest: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net...
Tons of excellent quotes in there, but I'm tickled by this echo of my earlier important reminder.
Bluesky question: I like that moderation is supposed to be opt-in. I stumbled on a pile-on thread with thousands of replies, many of them blocked by the Bluesky Moderation Service. I went to my settings and turned everything to "warn" instead of "hide", but the replies are still blocked. Sup?
November 27, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Bluesky question: I like that moderation is supposed to be opt-in. I stumbled on a pile-on thread with thousands of replies, many of them blocked by the Bluesky Moderation Service. I went to my settings and turned everything to "warn" instead of "hide", but the replies are still blocked. Sup?
Fun story: There's a 2022 paper which found that using my name in LLM code prompts resulted in the highest quality code!
This is one of my great prides. I hope to continue to contribute to the quality for Machine Intelligence and Organic Intelligence alike.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
This is one of my great prides. I hope to continue to contribute to the quality for Machine Intelligence and Organic Intelligence alike.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
November 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Fun story: There's a 2022 paper which found that using my name in LLM code prompts resulted in the highest quality code!
This is one of my great prides. I hope to continue to contribute to the quality for Machine Intelligence and Organic Intelligence alike.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
This is one of my great prides. I hope to continue to contribute to the quality for Machine Intelligence and Organic Intelligence alike.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
Update: This is what it's like having an extremely common Russian name that is also shared by a bunch of sanctioned oligarchs.
November 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Update: This is what it's like having an extremely common Russian name that is also shared by a bunch of sanctioned oligarchs.
The year is 2024, I just ordered a DVD±RW drive.
(I had a bunch of DELL points to waste before they expire in a couple months, but still.)
(I had a bunch of DELL points to waste before they expire in a couple months, but still.)
November 25, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The year is 2024, I just ordered a DVD±RW drive.
(I had a bunch of DELL points to waste before they expire in a couple months, but still.)
(I had a bunch of DELL points to waste before they expire in a couple months, but still.)
November 19, 2024 at 1:34 AM